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May 2007
- Hillary Sticks With Iowa Strategy
  
  New York Times | May 24, 07 2:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hillary Clinton rejected a top adviser's plan to bypass the Iowa caucuses, the New York Times reports, and she'll visit the state this weekend. An internal memo suggested focusing money and time on February 5's 20-state Super Tuesday instead of the January 14 caucuses. All but one of the last 14 nominees have won Iowa, New Hampshire, or both. More »
- Edwards Tops Iowa Poll
  
  Des Moines Register | May 21, 07 5:17 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Presidential hopeful John Edwards ranked first in a poll of voters from Iowa, home of January's pivotal caucus and the first step to the Democratic ballot. Edwards landed 29 percent of the vote in the Des Moines Register poll, compared to erstwhile frontrunners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who took 23 and 21 percent, respectively. More »
- Bush, Carter, Trade Barbs
  
  Reuters | May 21, 07 5:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A cold war of words is escalating between the White House and former occupant Jimmy Carter. On Saturday, Carter called the Bush administration "the worst in history" on the international front; yesterday Bush spokesman Tony Fratto shot back against the "reckless personal attack," sneering at Carter as "increasingly irrelevant." More »
- Senate Votes Down Iraq Withdrawal
  
  Reuters | May 17, 07 6:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Senate yesterday shot down a plan to cut all funding for the war in Iraq by next March. Russ Feingold's proposal, largely a test of anti-war support, was defeated in a 67-29 procedural vote, as Congress moves towards compromise with the White House on a spending measure. More »
- Obama Is Irish, Too
  
  Washington Post | May 13, 07 6:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Add one more bit of heritage to Barack Obama’s rich texture of multi-ethnicity; it turns out he’s Irish, too. His great-great-great grandfather on his mother’s side was Fulmuth Kearney, originally from the tiny village of Moneygall in Ireland. More »
- Michelle Obama Picks Campaign Trail Over Career Track
  
  Washington Post | May 11, 07 8:49 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Michelle Obama is putting her career on hold for her husband's campaign. The Princeton- and Harvard-educated lawyer has been phasing out her work as a vice president at the University of Chicago Hospitals and will be unemployed for the first time in her adult life. "It's a bit disconcerting," says Obama, 43. "But it's not like I'll be bored." More »
- Limbaugh Defends 'Magic Negro' Song
  
  Guardian (UK) | May 10, 07 9:35 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A song on Rush Limbaugh's radio show that derides Barack Obama is sparking controversy—but not with Obama. In perhaps the most devastating response a blowhard shock jock can provoke, the senator says he hasn't heard the song. Limbaugh has been playing "Barack the Magic Negro" (sung to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon") since March. More »
- In Detroit, Obama Rocks Boat
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 8, 07 7:01 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama called out the U.S. auto industry yesterday in its own front yard, reports The Wall Street Journal . In a sold-out speech at the Detroit Economic Club, the Illinois senator blamed much of the industry's current problems on automakers, whom he criticized for making larger and larger vehicles as foreign competitors pushed fuel efficiency. More »
- The Newest Fundraisers? Social Networkers
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | May 7, 07 4:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Think Iowa Caucus folkways meets Silicon Valley tech savvy: A group of high-tech entrepreneurs are using online and offline social networking to evaluate, pick, and support their presidential candidate. The groups skip traditional intermediaries—namely, political parties—to meet directly with candidates, then use their widespread (and wealthy) social networks to organize on the candidate's behalf. More »
- Secret Service Guards Obama
  
  CNN | May 3, 07 3:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has authorized Secret Service protection for presidential candidate Barack Obama, CNN reports. A spokesman would not explain the reason for the assignment but said the secretary acted at the campaign's request. The Secret Service said the coverage is not in response to a specific threat, although New York's WABC reported otherwise. More »
- Obama Talks Tough to Blacks
  
  Washington Post | May 3, 07 2:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama has been bringing up issues in front of black audiences that he plays down with more diverse crowds—namely, pointed criticism of the black community. In pull-no-punches speeches, Obama slams low African-American voter turnout, worries that children who do well in school are scorned as "acting white," and decries violent rap lyrics. More »
- MySpace Flap Costs Obama
  
  Chicago Tribune | May 3, 07 8:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The glow of a computer screen morphed into a harsh spotlight on the Barack Obama campaign this week during a bitter dispute over control of a MySpace page bearing the senator's name. Obama reached out last night—over the phone, not in an email—to the disgruntled supporter who created the page, but the damage is done. More »
April 2007
- Getting Under Obama's Skin
  
  New Yorker | Apr 30, 07 11:04 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Larissa MacFarquhar does an apt and artful deconstruction of Barack Obama's political persona in this week's New Yorker . Observing the candidate's oddly mild stump style, compared with the overachiever affect of most Democratic candidates, she notes that he is less professor than doctor, aiming not to whip up outrage but to heal the body politic. More »
- How Barack Found Jesus
  
  New York Times | Apr 30, 07 1:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Times retraces Barack Obama's peripatetic path to the Christianity he embraced 20 years ago and now invokes as he presents his presidential campaign in nothing short of biblical terms. Obama's mother was an anthropologist who schooled her son in the variety of religious experiences; his father's family in Kenya is Muslim. More »
- Dems Unite to Slam Iraq In First Debate
  
  Washington Post | Apr 27, 07 7:37 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Eight Democrats butted heads last night in the first '08 debate, not so much with each other but with the president over the war in Iraq. Candidates at South Carolina State University competed at panning the war for making the country less safe and Bush for ignoring the voters' will for a prompt exit. More »
- Obamas Aren't Millionaires —This Year
  
  Chicago Tribune | Apr 17, 07 9:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled their 2006 federal income tax return yesterday, offering a peek into the wallet of one of the least affluent presidential aspirants. The couple reported $983,826 in taxable income in 2006—a comedown from 2005's $1.6 million. More »
- Barack Trumps Hillary in Battle for Primary Cash
  
  New York | Apr 16, 07 7:47 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack topped Hill in the primary fundraising race, figures released yesterday showed, and New York mag knows why: Obama has not only won over some key Clinton-family loyalists, but culled a new generation of fortysomething donors with ample assets and Rolodexes to match. The result is Obama's $24.8 million primary war chest, which bests Hillary's by nearly $6 million. More »
- MSNBC DROPS IMUS
  
  MSNBC | Apr 11, 07 6:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - MSNBC dropped toxic shock jock Don Imus this afternoon, after a day in which companies, pols, and network execs couldn't distance themselves from the host fast enough. The announcement came after General Motors and Sprint Nextel, the show's two biggest advertisers, pulled their sponsorship, and prez contender Barack Obama, intiially reticent on the issue, recommended firing. More »
- Imus Affair Could Cost Obama
  
  Boston Globe | Apr 11, 07 10:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Don Imus meltdown could have fallout for Barack Obama, as critics note that he kept his mouth shut for five days—until after the suspension—before condemning the shock jock's crude racial jokes. The candidate's caution is signaling to some black leaders that he isn't going to take a hard-line stance on civil rights, the Boston Globe notes. More »
- GOP Lags In Campaign Cash
  
  New York Times | Apr 5, 07 8:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Democratic presidential hopefuls have outperformed their GOP rivals at raising primary cash for the first time since 1976. In the first quarter the score was $79 mil to $51 mil, which seems portentous: Bob Dole's campaign manager confesses to the Times that the Dems "seem to have a lot more hunger for the White House right now than we do." More »